The Holy Lent

Day 2 - First Tuesday of the The Holy Lent

by Prince Mathew

Preface for meditation

The Holy Lent is a wonderful opportunity to do our job, that is, mainly our
returning to Him, repentance. Indeed, repentance is the most blessed and
God-given way of returning to Him. In Orthodox perspective, our whole life as
believers is a way of constant returning to Him with gratitude – to the point of
union with God. Even in the midst of spiritual growth, our main job has to
remain in repentance. Then, God does His part, multiplying His blessing,
purifying, illumining and sanctifying us. It is only through our repentance, we
meet His grace.

According to St. John Chrysostom, repentance consists of confession, fasting,
prayers, forgiveness, almsgiving and humility. Here, we see why the The Holy Lent
is a blessed time, as we are reminded by all of these. Our endeavor on the path
of repentance makes us to remain in Him and ultimately to encounter His power
and glory.

The The Holy Lent is a spiritual journey, during which we do fast for fifty days.
This journey symbolizes the entire human life. This is about the way of our
returning for the reconciliation with God. It reminds us the fall of humanity
and the way of restoration. It teaches us what the human being is and what the
relationship with God means to us. It is indeed our turn to commit ourselves to
return to Him, confessing our sins, with fasting and prayers, in humility and
simplicity, in mindfulness and watchfulness, and in compassion and love, so that
we may make this journey to be fruitful; we may make this Lent, a time of
personal transformation, a renewal of our souls and bodies. We may eventually
rejoice in our arrival to the Light of Christ’s Resurrection.